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Month: January 2026
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The HackerNoon Newsletter: 680 Hours, 4 Rebuilds, and Getting Fired: How I Built Software While Working Warehouse Shifts (1/17/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 17, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Persian Gulf War began in 1991, Popeye the Sailor made his first appearance in 1929, Google Videos launched in 2006, and we present you with these top quality … Read more
Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane
Oshen has signed contracts with multiple government agencies for its C-Star robots to collect ocean data autonomously.
The LG C5 and Apple’s M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend
Small footprint. Speedy performance. | Image: The Verge Happy Saturday, folks! This week, Best Buy kicked off its so-called “Winter Sale,” introducing a whole host of price cuts that range from not-so-good to legitimately great, at least for this time of year. We’ll be publishing many of the highlights in a dedicated news post tomorrow, … Read more
Popular Burger joint Steak ’n Shake buys $10 million bitcoin
The company says that accepting bitcoin payments has led to a “self-reinforcing cycle” where crypto revenue helps fund upgrades and improvements.
Third-Party Risks in 2026: Outlook and Security Strategies
Many companies rely on external services to keep their operations running smoothly. However, while third-party vendors help power systems and support day-to-day operations, each new integration adds a potential access point that attackers can target. In 2026, third-party risk influences the speed at which incidents spread, the effectiveness of compliance, and the rate at which … Read more
All You Need Is Kill is a dazzling movie with the soul of a video game
While Hollywood has repeatedly tried adapting stories from Japanese manga, vanishingly few of them have been as good as Edge of Tomorrow – Warner Bros.’ 2014 live-action film based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s sci-fi light novel All You Need Is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow wasn’t a one-to-one translation of All You Need Is Kill‘s original story … Read more
What comes next: State of Crypto
The crypto market structure bill isn’t dead, but it took a blow.
The AI Engine is the New Artist: Rethinking Royalties in an Age of Infinite Content
People can use generative AI to create art, text, and music from datasets of previous art, which is significantly impacting the current creative economy. The debate of what makes an artist and the lack of clear compensation are growing concerns, prompting the evolving issue of royalty battles over AI-generated work. The Evolution of Royalty Battles … Read more
Minnesota wants to win a war of attrition
As masked and armed men in combat armor swarmed throughout the Twin Cities, Gov. Tim Walz took to primetime television to ask Minnesotans to film ICE. The videos, he said, would “create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans – not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.” … Read more
A cute frog game that remixes Nintendo’s best
While playing Big Hops, a new 3D platformer starring an adorable frog, I kept feeling like I was breaking the game – and, like with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, breaking it is kind of the point. In Big Hops, you play as a frog named Hop. Early on, Hop is taken … Read more
Our favorite cozy game is back
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 112, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I hope your home is warmer than mine right now, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about WhatsApp and Gavin … Read more
Fear and blogging (and prerelease laptop testing) in Las Vegas
During a chaotic multiday event, I found myself working anywhere. And always in a rush. At CES, I did what you’re not supposed to do: I brought a pre-production laptop to use as my primary workhorse during a hectic event. The unproven rifle in question is the new Arm-based Asus Zenbook A16. It’s a 16-inch … Read more
Three reasons why Bitcoin’s ‘real breakout’ toward $107K has begun
Bitcoin entered a decisive breakout phase, targeting $107,000 as long-term holder selling fades and BTC continues to leave exchanges, tightening supply.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs attract $1.42B in strongest week since early October
Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted their strongest week since October as institutional investors returned via regulated products, helped by reduced whale selling and tightening effective supply.